Top Tesla Employees Leaving

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In the last few months, Tesla lost its head of Autopilot hardware engineering, two of its top car designers, its head of the Indian market, its top software engineer, and the technical program lead for its Cortex supercomputer.

Mark Westfall, a 10-year veteran of Tesla, announced that he had left the company.

Westfall joined Tesla’s engineering team in 2014. In the last few years, he has focused on Tesla’s energy products.

This week, he confirmed that he joined Redwood Materials as ‘Director of Engineering’.

Redwood Materials is becoming a refuge for former Tesla executives.

The company’s CTO is Colin Campbell, a 16-year veteran of Tesla. Redwood’s Chief Commercial Officier is Cal Lankton, Tesla’s former VP of Energy. Chris Lister, the early head of Tesla’s Gigafactory operations, is now the Chief Operations Officer at Redwood.

And of course, JB Straubel, a Tesla co-founder and long-time CTO, founded and is CEO of Redwood Materials.

Redwood has a direct relationship with Tesla as the automaker sells scraps from its manufacturing operations to Redwood for recycling.

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What utter rubbish!

The Captain

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Captain probably won’t like this either.

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An entirely different animal. No opinion because I don’t know anything about it.

BTW, this afternoon I saw my first autonomous vehicle. A floor sweeper in a giant supermarket.

The Captain

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My local supermarket has had these for years.

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People have been able to buy Roombas for many years, now. I don’t think many folks think of them as “autonomous,” but they’re probably of a piece with a floor sweeper in a supermarket - just smaller.

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